Monday, February 13, 2017

Body Temples

This coming Sunday
at Mount Hebron Presbyterian Church we'll be concluding our series of
messages about the “Conundrums of Corinth” and be taking a look
at 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 & 16-23. Last week we we were thinking
about “Solid Food.”

This weeks theme
will be 'The Temple of You'... and we'll be reflecting on what it
might mean to be a walking, living, breathing temple of God. I was
intrigued by this video... which is about the 3rd temple
mentioned in Scripture... the one Ezekial saw in a vision (but which
was never actually built ) and how it was to be built in the shape of
a person. (You'll have to watch this video to know what I'm talking about!)

Body temples. Then there's the whole
idea of the community of the faithful people of God being together a 'temple' or
'Body' ... and the biblical image of the church as being the 'Body of
Christ'.

And then there is Jesus talking about His body as being a
temple that if destroyed would be rebuilt in three days time. Mind
boggling stuff when you start allowing all those different temple
related images to percolate in your mind!

Paul writes in the passage we are considering :
"Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple
and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?" (verse 16). So...
our theme... body temples.

Here's some questions to consider as we approach
Sunday.

How well are we taking care of our personal temple?

What's
the mission statement of our personal temple?

What does Paul mean when he writes 'that God’s Spirit dwells
in your midst'?

I searched
for a song on this theme... and found this on the YouTube... "Temple Restoration" by a lady called Janet Morrison. Certainly fits well
with the theme and is based on 1 Corinthians 3 verse 16.

Hope to see some
of you Sunday... and maybe connect with others in different ways :-)

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